The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-12-29

and large amount OF property was de-
stroyed
JuDGE J. T. TREMBLE and James A. RAM
Aey, prominent citizens OF FaImersville,
Ky, shot each other dead on the 10th dur
ing . quarrel
ADvIcEs Of the oOth say that owing to
the clo ng of the South Carolina phosphate
mines many negroes were starving.
A YIRE on the Goth nearly destroyed the
town OF Weeping Water. Neb.
On the 2O.h over Ave hundred represent
alive Indiana Republicans met IN confer
ence ut Indianapolis and adopted resolu-
tions fay0ring protective tariff, pensions,
and the expenditure of the surplus on forts.
REPORTS OF the 10th from some Of the
counties in Western Kansas, particularly
Clark, were to the effect that the farmers
were suffering for the want Of food. coal
and clothing. SIX persons were known to
have died from freezing.
EIIHU GRECO, q notorious horse thief was
found dead on the 10Th in the mountains
Of West Virginia with . bullet-hole In his
breast The man was over eighty years
old. and he had been known as desperate
criminal for nifty years
The Virginia Legislature electe John S.
Barbour United States Senator on the Goth
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A blizzard prevailed In portions of Min
nesota Iowa, Illinois, Missouri. Kansas, Col
Ofado and Dakota on the 10Th The snow
was unusually heavy, and was driven by a
fierce wind, blockading railway trains
The thermometer was "a degrees below
zero at some pointA
FOURTEEN officers acting under the United
States Marshal for the Western district Of
Arkansas have been killed by desperadoes
in Indian Territory during the last two
years. and lawiessness was on the 2Qth said
to be on the increase
OWING to thu decision Of the Supreme
Court risks amounting to 500, 600 on the
property Of brewers at Dubuque. Ia were
ordered cancelled on the 10Th by Eastern
insurance companies
BIZ . collision on the st Paul road at
Jackson Junction, Ia, three train men
were fatally injured on the 2lst
The steamer San vincente, owned by the
Pacific Coast Steamship Company, was
burned to the waters edge off Pigeon
point on the Dist, and out of the crew of
nineteen officers and men eleven were lost
A FIRE destroyed the business portion of
the town Of dwell. Ind, on the 2lst
The death of Major W. W. Van Antwerp,
postmaster at Jackson, Mich, occurred at
his residence In that city on the 21st
In portions OF Colorado the thermometer
registered from 70 to 81 degrees below
zero on the 91st. the latter record being ut
Robinson, where the cold was SO intense
that the people feared to venture from their
houses
In a saloon at Opelousas. La, dispute
over politics on the 31st ended in the fatal
shooting Of three men.
A FIRE ON the 22d nearly destroyed the
village Of Montevideo, Mimi
The wife and daughter Of Ed McElroy, n
pilot on the steamer Helen Meade. were
burned to death on the 12d in their resi-
dence at vicksburg. Miss
ADvIcEs OF the 22d " that as many as
sixty persons perished from hunger and
cold during the prevalence OF the recent
blizzard in Kansas.
On the 22d James Lundy. his wife and
three children, of Lima, o., were fatally in
iurei in q natural gas explosion, Which
wrecked their dwelling
ON the 22d Mrs Magdalinc Boggs, the
oldest resident of Indiana. celebrated her
one hundred and fourth birthday at her
home in Milton. Wayne County.
NEAR Delphi, Ind. David Hildebrand and
his son Fred were struck by q Wabash train
on the I'D while crossing the track and
were killed
The discovery Of gold and silver in large
quantities on the Hiawasser river in North
Carolina was reported on the 2od Six
thousand acres had been explored
The product Of flour at Minneapolis dur
ing the year was on the ..2d reported al
0,Gl6. 700 barrels.